Don’t understand it? Then come let Peter explain.. r/explainitpeter is a subreddit for the purpose of users to share images of things they don’t understand. Once the submission is submitted, commenters will then explain it in the first-person view of Family Guy’s Peter Griffin. Founded 2018 · 317.3K members
322.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached
69.7K upvotes, which works out to
216 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
96%
Image 96%Text 2%Question 1%
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
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What is r/explainitpeter?
r/explainitpeter ("Don’t understand it? Then come let Peter explain.") describes itself this way: r/explainitpeter is a subreddit for the purpose of users to share images of things they don’t understand. Once the submission is submitted, commenters will then explain it in the first-person view of Family Guy’s Peter Griffin. It was founded in 2018 and has 317.3K members.
How many members does r/explainitpeter have?
r/explainitpeter has about 322.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 413 of its posts; the biggest reached 69.7K upvotes, which is 216 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/explainitpeter?
"Explain it peter" reached 69.7K upvotes and 3.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/explainitpeter.
What subreddits are similar to r/explainitpeter?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/explainitpeter?
Of the posts we hold, 96% are image posts and 2% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/explainitpeter?
Across 413 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 10:00 UTC (32.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (25.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (24.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/explainitpeter?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/explainitpeter has 39.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 20 posts from it in the last 30 days.
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community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
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